And perhaps more importantly, why would I get in a pissing match to defend people I've never personally met? My only answer to that is this: If the shoe were on the other foot, I would be defending you. You're just too busy whining to stop and figure it out.
I'm not defending anyone personally; I'm defending anyone who appears to be a victim of someone else's vindictiveness and personal animosity. To put it bluntly, appearing on a public forum and repeating personal conversations and interactions is downright rude, tacky and crass. It serves no useful purpose whatsoever other than to make you, Pat Briley, f-e-e-l better.
I appreciate the courtesy of your heads up and am doing my best to bring myself up to speed on the current conflict here. I know from experience I can rely on you to ask hard questions, research like a fiend and proffer plenty of food for thought.
But this rant seems over the top coming from you, Nita.
Probably best to leave the scolding to those who've never monopolized the forum with over a dozen threads based on some anonymous Freepmails from an alleged Insider portending a Clinton Third Term ... which coup, one assumes, could only have been perpetrated on this nation by a government whose federal agencies and/or military (at the time, anyway) appeared to you somehow Evil or sufficiently compromised to carry through with such a plot.
The Trannie threads not only served to ingrain Fear as galvanizing factor around here but resulted in certain personal polarizations between longtime acquaintances and fellow researchers that, sadly, never shall be undone entirely. You and Logos come to mind where I'm concerned -- a real loss that still bothers me.
I don't always agree with (or understand) everything Patrick says and myself am dubious over the facile way OKC has morphed into a Middle Eastern thing now that such an explanation serves the government's current purposes ... as did blaming it strictly on Just The Two Men and "militia mentality" at the time.
But over the years, I've developed a profound respect for OKCSubmariner's diligence in pursuing and broadcasting the truth. I have never once gotten the impression -- though this is a very personal matter for him -- that he is somehow in it "for himself". Quite the opposite.
I see no need, just as the stakes are being ratcheted publicly, for demonizing him and personally attacking him as being in the gutter or aggrandizing over the situation for his benefit. It can only serve to balkanize those who've and followed the OKC threads for years now and, truly, that would break my heart.
Regards, Nita. Keep up the good work and the tough questions. All of that is very valuable.